Immaculate Heart of Mary’s Hermitage Video Collection

The Australian’s Iain Shedden talks to two of the Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, the Pope’s favourite Gregorian chant singers, who have become unlikely pop stars in Europe with their album ‘Chant’.

Christmas Mass

-LATIN-
Puer natus est nobis, et filius datus est nobis, cujus imperium super humerum ejus et vocabitur nomen ejus, magni consilii Angelus.
Cantate Domino canticum novum quia mirabilia fecit. Gloria Patre et Filio et Spiritui Santo…
English Trans.-
A Child is born to us, and a Son is given to us: Whose government is upon His shoulder: and His [...]

Today Christ is born:
Today the Savior appeared:
Today on Earth the Angels sing,
Archangels rejoice:
Today the righteous rejoice, saying:
Glory to God in the highest.
Alleluia.
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Hodie Christus natus est:
Hodie Salvator apparuit:
Hodie in terra canunt Angeli,
laetantur Archangeli
Hodie exsultant justi, dicentes:
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Alleluia.

O Emmanuel,
Rex et legifer noster,
expectatio gentium,
et Salvator earum:
veni ad salvandum nos,
Domine, Deus noster.
O Emmanuel,
the one awaited by the gentiles,
and their Savior:
come to save us,
Lord our God.

O Rex Gentium,
et desideratus earum,
lapisque angularis,
qui facis utraque unum:
veni, et salva hominem,
quem de limo formasti.
O King of the Nations,
and the one they desired,
keystone,
who makes both peoples one,
come and save mankind,
whom you shaped from the mud.

O Oriens,
splendor lucis aeternae,
et sol justitiae:
veni, et illumina
sedentes in tenebris,
et umbra mortis.
O morning star,
splendour of the light eternal
and bright sun of righteousness:
come and bring light
to those who dwell in darkness
and walk in the shadow of death.

O Clavis David,
et sceptrum domus Israël,
qui aperis, et nemo claudit,
claudis, et nemo aperuit:
veni, et educ vinctum
de domo carceris,
sedentem in tenebris,
et umbra mortis.
O Key of David
and sceptre of the House of Israel,
come, And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to death’s abode..

The Great antiphon sung on 19 December by the Dominican student brothers in Oxford.
III – December 19
O RADIX Iesse, qui stas in signum populorum,
super quem continebunt reges os suum, quem gentes deprecabuntur:
veni ad liberandum nos, iam noli tardare.
O Root of Jesse, who stand as a sign for the peoples (Isaiah 11:10),
the kings of the [...]

II – December 18

O ADONAI, dux domus Israel,
qui Moysi in igne flammae rubi apparuisti, et in Sina legem dedisti:
veni ad redimendum nos in brachio extenso.

O Lord (Exodus 6:2, Vulgate), leader of the house of Israel,
who appeared to Moses in the fire of the burning bush (Exodus 3:2) and
on Mount Sinai gave him the law (Exodus [...]